- Title
- Era of progress and promise, 1863-1910 : the religious, moral, and educational development of the American Negro since his emancipation
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- Date
- 1910
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- Creator
- ["Hartshorn, W. N. (William Newton), 1843-1920."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Era of progress and promise, 1863-1910 : the religious, moral, and educational development of the American Negro since his emancipation
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William A. Sinclair, A.M., D.D.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Dr. Sinclair is financial secretary of the Frederick Douglass
Memorial Hospital. He is author of a noted book, “ The After-
math of Slavery,” a study of the condition and environment of
the American Negro. It has been received by the press
and public as one of the most notable
contributions ever made by a Negro to
the consideration of the problems of
his race.
Dr. Sinclair was born in slavery
March 25, 1857, in Georgetown, S. C.
He received his primary education in
Georgetown and then spent two years
in Claflin University, Orangeburg,
S. C. He was two years in the Uni¬
versity of South Carolina, until, by a
change of administration, its doors
were closed to colored students.
The young man graduated from the
Theological Department of Howard
University in 1880, and with the college class of 1881. For
three years he was pastor of the Howard Congregational
Church, under the American Missionary Association, at Nash¬
ville, Tenn. In 1884 he matriculated at Andover Theological
Seminary, Mass., graduating from that school in 1885. He
resumed work at Howard Congregational Church, remaining
there until 1887. He studied at the Meharry Medical College,
Nashville, and graduated in 1887, with the salutatory address.
He served a year in Livingstone College, Salisbury, N. C.,
at the head of the department of natural sciences, and taught
some of the classes in the theological department. In 1888 he
was appointed financial secretary of Howard University, Wash¬
ington, D. C., and held the position for sixteen years. He
settled in Philadelphia in 1904 and became associated with the
work of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital.
The “ Aftermath of Slavery ” is " an expression from the soul
of a man who feels most keenly the awful burdens, wrongs, and
oppressions heaped upon his people.” Edward Atkinson, a
well-known Boston publicist, said of this book in the
Л
ortli
American Review , “ It is the most remarkable book ever written
by a colored man, unless we except the novels of Dumas.
Richmond, Va.
Mr. Price is president of the Southern Aid Society of Vir¬
ginia, director of the Mechanic’s Savings Bank, the Capital
Shoe and Supply Company, the American Beneficiary Insurance
Company, and proprietor of one of the largest undertaking and
livery establishments in the South.
He was born in Hanover Countv,
Va., August 9, 1860, and attended
the first public school established for
colored children after the Civil War.
Leaving school, he was clerk in Rich¬
mond for several years, when he learned
the trade of blacksmithing, and in 1881
engaged in blacksmithing and wheel -
wrighting on his own account. He
employed both white and colored me¬
chanics, — twelve men and boys.
In 1886 he established an under¬
taking and liverv business which was
not successful. He resumed this business in 189.8 and has since
made it one of the most successful of the kind in the South. In
addition to his business as an undertaker and livery man, he
has large real estate interests. His residence is one of the
finest owned bv one of his race in the South. His business
block contains halls that are used for public purposes and by
lodges. He is constructing three of the most modern tenement
buildings in the city of Richmond for colored tenants. His real
estate holdings are about $70,000. He owns a large brick ware¬
house where he carries stock for his undertaking business, as
well as other things, giving employment to twenty-five persons,
and deals with the trade in Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia.
For many years Mr. Price has been active in Sunday-school
work. For several years he was superintendent of a Sunday-
school in Ashland, Va., and later was a teacher in the Ebenezer
Sunday-school at Richmond.
The Southern Aid Society, of which Mr. Price is president, is
the strongest financially of any sick benefit insurance company
in Virginia. In 1907 it did a business of nearly $122,000. It
paid for losses in 1907 nearly fifty-one per cent of its gross
receipts from premiums and assessments. It reaches hundreds
of homes in the state with its benefits.
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